The Lakewood Planning Commission will be holding a public hearing tonight, Wednesday, January 17, at 6:30 p.m. in the Lakewood City Hall Council Chambers, to consider a proposal to amend the Lakewood Municipal Code regarding Adult Family Homes in the city of Lakewood. The official notice states that: The proposed action would amend Lakewood Municipal Code, 18A.20.300 D. The proposed action would: 1) define an Adult Family Home (AFH) as a Type 1 Group Home licensed pursuant to RCW 70.128.150; 2) require an AFH to obtain a city business license; 3) prohibit clients with a history of violence, including sex offenses from occupying an AFH; 4) prohibiting the conversion of an AFH into an Enhanced Services Facility (ESF); and 5) prohibiting ESFs in the R1, R2, R3, and R4 single-family residential zoning districts. Interested persons are invited to attend the public hearing and provide testimony. If you want to submit written comments you may do so at the public hearing, or you can submit written comments through the Lakewood Community and Economic Development Department. The department’s address is Lakewood City Hall, Second Floor, 6000 Main Street SW, Lakewood, WA 98499. This proposal is in response to concerns that were highlighted by the recent attempted release of Lawrence Butterfield, accused of murdering his roommate in 2010 and currently held in the maximum security wing of Western State Mental Hospital, into an Adult Family Home located in the Oakbrook neighborhood. That release has been indefinitely postponed, but the concerns it raised still need to be addressed. Residents of Lakewood in general and Oakbrook in particular are strongly encouraged to attend tonight’s public hearing.